Name: HackNJIT 2020
Start: 2020-11-07T12:00:00.000-05:00
End: 2020-11-08T12:00:00.000-05:00
Location: HackNJIT 2020

Welcome to HackNJIT 2020! HackNJIT is an annual hackathon brought to you by the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Eligibility

All undergraduate students, graduate students, or alumni who have graduated within one year of HackNJIT 2020 may participate. Participants may form teams of up to four people and each participant may be on only one team.

Requirements

A public link to the project's entire source code. This may be a GitHub link or a Google Drive Link.
Submissions will be judged live on Discord. You may pre-record a video and present it to judges, but you must be present on Discord during judging in order to do so.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$8,000 in prizes

1st Place

1 winner

For the "Best in Show", $1500 split across the team!

2nd Place

1 winner

For the "2nd Place Runner Up", $1000 split across the team!

3rd Place

1 winner

For the "3rd Place Runner Up", $500 split across the team!

Pi in the Sky (Weirdest Hack)

1 winner

Have a really "weird" hack idea? Winners of this prize will receive a CanaKit Raspberry Pi 4 Starter Kit (4GB) for each team member!

Passport Prize (Best Travel Hack)

1 winner

While we can't travel now, we'll be able to later, and hackers who win this prize will receive an Anker 20000mAh battery bank for each team member to keep them charged!

First Time? (Best Newbie Hack)

1 winner

For our teams that are made up of at least half first-time hackers, winners of this prize will receive a Fujifilm instax Mini 9 Instant Camera for each team member!

Breaking Barriers (Social Good Hack)

1 winner

One of the big things about being a world traveller is breaking barriers, whether they be social, cultural, or anything else. Winners of this prize will receive Sony WH-CH510 Wireless On-Ear Headphones for each team member!

Long Distance (Best Chat Hack)

1 winner

Build a really cool bot and your team will receive a year of Discord Nitro for each member!

Best Domain Registered with Domain.com

1 winner

Register a .tech, .space, or .online domain name using Domain.com during the weekend. Each team may submit one entry per person on the team. Each winning team member will receive a PowerSquare Qi Wireless Phone Charger & Domain.com Backpack.

Best use of Google Cloud

1 winner

Build your hackathon project with a suite of secure storage, powerful compute, and integrated data analytics products provided by Google Cloud. See full list of products here: g.co/cloud. Each winning team member will receive a Google Home Mini.

Best Hardware Hack Sponsored by Digi-Key

2 winners

Using your preferred hardware or hardware emulator, build a hack for your chance to win a Grove Beginner Kit, with Arduino Uno R3 included. 1 prize for each winning team member with 2 winning teams per event!